The North Carolina Department of Transportation said Monday that it has awarded a pair of contracts worth $5 million to Barrett, Irvin and Jordan Contractors Inc. of Durham for improvements on 15 Durham County roads, including N.C. 54. A $3.6 million contract was awarded for resurfacing and shoulder reconstruction work on a 1.5-mile stretch of N.C. 54 betwee […]
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst knows how to control a crowd. And that’s exactly what he did when he answered my questions at our annual Business Person of the Year dinner event on Feb. 3 at the Cardinal Club in Raleigh. Unlike his predecessors Bob Young and Matthew Szulik, who were exceptional in preaching the value of open source, Whitehurst comes across as bei […]
He may be the CEO of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), but Jim Whitehurst also knows a little bit about what American Airlines is facing these days. Before joining Red Hat, Whitehurst was the chief operating officer at Delta Airlines (NYSE: DAL) and charted an aggressive course for Delta to emerge out of bankruptcy. Sitting atop one of the highest buildings in Raleigh (W […]